From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Sat May 30 06:56:38 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CC1B2FF912 for ; Sat, 30 May 2020 06:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (mailman.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::50:13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49Ysft2C00z4K2S for ; Sat, 30 May 2020 06:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 49B332FFF00; Sat, 30 May 2020 06:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: x11@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497A32FFE37 for ; Sat, 30 May 2020 06:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49Ysfs5Gtsz4KBh; Sat, 30 May 2020 06:56:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 04U6uPP7074971 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 30 May 2020 08:56:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=netfence.it; s=202005; t=1590821788; bh=31PSi+Nuj7h0C7G4Cmp2XP4deQhDreV4ZTp1guzC2g4=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=aqQYIy8au1dB6KbrjuiXEodIjxJSCcGWrRDUoO7nuss7z3KxWRwP/9+5EKFpiwDI5 2g/CYmGSJ7qURDQzs3HtD42A9bFeX7B0xKL/LETHoXRDPPQ2xmIaTelPXNwFTM3cI5 Ao7yzPPKFQuW5m1A1Oh8GEh2j8OT4yrl7eM22wDo= X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: xf86-video-ati-legacy port status To: Niclas Zeising , x11@freebsd.org References: <20200527172918.GA874@doom.homeunix.org> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <6675586c-dae2-39c6-2aba-bd66511d2d72@netfence.it> Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 08:56:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49Ysfs5Gtsz4KBh X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; ASN(0.00)[asn:30722, ipnet:2.44.0.0/16, country:IT]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 06:56:38 -0000 On 2020-05-29 10:42, Niclas Zeising wrote: > Unfortunately it is very hard to fix it.  There has been several changes > in how xorg-server interacts with the xf86 drivers, and the version > xf86-video-ati-legacy was based on was very old and not compatible with > xserver 1.20. > If anyone can make xf86-video-ati-legacy work with xserver 1.20 we can > get the patches in, but I don't have the time to work on > xf86-video-ati-legacy myself. Agreed, but it's really the non-legacy version that should be fixed. At a bare minimum, documentation should be updated to report what really works (not what should work but doesn't). As I said my integrated Radeon GPU does not work at all with new Xorg; I found another Radeon card laying around and tried that: it's better but still not there. Both are reported as "working" on the wiki. Now, if I decided to go ahead and buy a new card, I wouldn't know what to buy: I could check the wiki, get a card which is listed there and discover I just wasted my money? bye av. P.S. BTW, I also have a laptop with CPU integrated Intel graphics: again, it's listed as just working, but I had to step through hops to avoid hangs and I still often get screen corruption. So even if I decided to change the whole box and get an Intel CPU, I'm not sure what to expect.